About: John Richard Arthur Conolly

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

John Richard Arthur Conolly (22 July 1870 – 1 March 1945) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1897 to 1901, representing the seat of Dundas. He was born in Ireland, lived in Australia from 1884 to 1900, and then spent the rest of his life in South Africa.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • John Richard Arthur Conolly (22 July 1870 – 1 March 1945) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1897 to 1901, representing the seat of Dundas. He was born in Ireland, lived in Australia from 1884 to 1900, and then spent the rest of his life in South Africa. Conolly was born in County Westmeath, Ireland. His father was John Augustus Conolly, a Victoria Cross recipient. He arrived in Australia at a young age, having run away from school, and initially worked as a drover, stockman, and opal miner. Conolly came to Western Australia in 1893, during the gold rushes, and worked as a prospector and gold miner in Coolgardie. He later moved on to Norseman and then to Esperanace, and established farms on some of the islands of the Recherche Archipelago. At the 1897 general election, Conolly stood for the newly created seat of Dundas as an opponent of the government of John Forrest, and was elected with 40.4 percent of the vote. However, in December 1899, he volunteered to serve in the Boer War, enlisting in the West Australian Mounted Infantry. He was joined by one other member of parliament, Frank Wallace (the member for Yalgoo). Although not in the country, Conolly remained an MP until the 1901 state election, when he was replaced by Albert Thomas. He was discharged from the military in March 1901, and remained in South Africa, farming in the Transvaal (near Barberton). Conolly eventually retired to Johannesburg, where he died in March 1945, aged 74. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1870-07-22 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:deathDate
  • 1945-03-01 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:termPeriod
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 50696148 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4901 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1091146602 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1870-07-22 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • County Westmeath, Ireland (en)
dbp:constituency
dbp:deathDate
  • 1945-03-01 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Johannesburg, South Africa (en)
dbp:name
  • John Conolly (en)
dbp:office
  • of Western Australia (en)
  • Member of the Legislative Assembly (en)
dbp:predecessor
  • None (en)
dbp:successor
dbp:termEnd
  • 1901-04-26 (xsd:date)
dbp:termStart
  • 1897-05-07 (xsd:date)
dbp:title
  • Member for Dundas (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1897 (xsd:integer)
dct:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • John Richard Arthur Conolly (22 July 1870 – 1 March 1945) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1897 to 1901, representing the seat of Dundas. He was born in Ireland, lived in Australia from 1884 to 1900, and then spent the rest of his life in South Africa. (en)
rdfs:label
  • John Richard Arthur Conolly (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • John Conolly (en)
is dbo:predecessor of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:predecessor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License